Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commissioned and warrant officers and the warrant corps of the U. S. Navy feel that TIME, of all publications, should be correctly informed on this score, so that in future full credit may be given an officer of this Corps as regards his rank and status. We deeply regret the loss of our beloved shipmate and therefore feel that in fairness to his memory, he be placed in some definite category instead of that of neither officer nor enlisted...
...whip out recommendations to the Reserve Board and its member banks. The recommendation that made headlines: "History shows that the further currency inflation goes, the more difficult it becomes to control and ... it invariably results in untold losses to great masses of the people and the ruin of national credit...
...Amulree had put the Atlantic between himself and Newfoundland when his Commission's report was published simultaneously in London and at St. John's. It declared 'that Newfoundland's chief industry-fisheries-is rotten to the core, that Newfoundland fishermen have become, under a "vicious credit system," practically the serfs of the merchants of St. John...
...would seem nearer to the truth to assign Veblen's vitriol to clear eyes and a sharp critical talent. More than any other man of the twentieth century, Veblen pierced the syllogized "classical economics" with its ridiculous labor equations and its mumbo jumbo on the credit system. It is through no fault of his that these things persist in the colleges of the nation, for much of his energy was spent in attempting to force them out. Mr. Bates remarks that he was handicapped, in his later years, by a delusion of prophecy that made him see himself...
There is, of course, a widespread use of the word "inflation" to cover various forms of credit expansion, but the issue of greenbacks or other money which is not backed by a metallic reserve is not likely to command a Congressional majority...